As Starbucks revived red-and-green coffee cups for the holidays, some customers are stirring up complaints that the company left Christmas off the cups, along with holding the cream or sugar.

Josua Feuerstein, an Arizona-based evangelist, posted a Facebook video that has been viewed 12 million times by Monday morning that lamented the lack of a Christian message on the red cups with traditional green logo.

"Do you realize that Starbucks wanted to take Christ and Christmas off of their brand-new cups?" Feuerstein asked. "That's why they're just plain red."

Rather than boycott, he told the barista his name was "Merry Christmas" to get that written on the cup. He's urging other customers to do the same and to post selfies with the cups on social media.

Starbucks said it has adopted holiday designs since 1997, this year with a bright poppy color at the top becoming a darker cranberry at the bottom. Vintage ornaments and hand-drawn reindeer have appeared in past years.

The red cup represents a blank canvas for customers to put their own doodles, the company said in a statement. Starbucks will continue to embrace and welcome customers from all backgrounds and religions in its stores around the world, the company said.

"Starbucks has become a place of sanctuary during the holidays," Jeffrey Fields, Starbucks vice president of design and content, said in a statement announcing this year's cup. "We're embracing the simplicity and the quietness of it. It's more open way to usher in the holiday."